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ERRATA  IN  FIRST  EDITION 

Page  12,  line  8,  "petitions"  should  be: 
"partitions." 

24,  line  3,  "wreckless"  should  be: 

"wreckful." 

49,  should  be:  "Illustration  No.  7" 
58,  "Ameba"  may  be  :  "Amoeba." 

OMISSIONS 

Page  22,  last  paragraph  should  read:  "must 
be  fed,  protected  and  given 
proper  exercise." 

25,  line  5  should  read:  "was  conceiv- 

ed and  born  at  his  own  soli- 
citation." 

55,  line  II  should  read :  "It  stands 
between  equation  and  equa- 
tion in  mathematics,  between 
action  and  reaction  every- 
where and  forever." 


BIYONDE  CIFRUN 

(BEYOND  ZERO) 


BY 
GEORGE  D.  BUCHANAN 

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BOSTON 

BUCHANAN  &,  COMPANY 

1911 


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GEORGE  D.   BUCHANAN 
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BIYONDE  CIFRUN 

IS 

FOUR  FOLD 

NOVEL 

SCIENTIFIC 

ETHICAL 

AND 

PROPHETIC 


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SYNOPSIS 


PRELUDE.  The  new  ever  growing  within  and  without 
the  old.  The  immortality  which  we  see  and 
know. 


CHAPTER  I.  The  presence  of  matter  does  not  exclude 
all  else,  nor  always  affect  the  ingredients  which 
co-exist  within  it.  How  the  forts  of  the  future 
must  be  built. 


CHAPTER  II.  A  side  excursion.  Man  has  more  than 
five  senses.  Every  man  his  own  maker,  preserver 
and  destroyer.     First  glimpses  of  the  cifnm. 


CHAPTER  III.  The  cifnm  in  relation  to  speed  of 
whirling  objects.  Why  planets  are  self-sustaining 
entities.  How  planets  grow  and  wane.  The 
rings  of  Saturn  as  visible  cifruns. 


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CHAPTER  IV.  The  cifrun  in  relation  to  light.  Un- 
reliability of  impressions  received  by  direct  rays 
of  light.  Rays  which  impress  the  intellect 
instead  of  the  eye.    A  trip  among  the  stars. 


CHAPTER  V.  The  cifrun  in  relation  to  heat.  Soimd, 
light  and  heat  only  different  manifestations  of  the 
same  force,  each  being  simply  biyonde  cifnm 
from  the  other.  Possibility  of  matter  existing 
in  other  forms  than  solid,  liquid  and  gas.  The 
fourth  and  fifth  dimensions.  A  profoimd  prob- 
lem confronts  the  human  race.  Investigation 
limited  only  by  dfnm  ultra. 

CHAPTER  VI.  The  cifrun  and  its  recurrence  a  universal 
law.  Cifruns  in  vegetable  and  animal  life.  Our 
best  friend  a  little  white  animal  almost  worthy 
of  worship.  What  we  are  and  what  death  is. 
Importance  of  the  life  this  side  the  grave.  A 
prophecy  of  a  new  doctrine.  Its  source  and  nat- 
ural   birthplace. 


The  author  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  to 
PROF.  S.  WILKIN 
and 
MR.  JOHN  M.  BUDRUDEN 
for  their  influence,   which  widened  the  range 
of  the   subject  matter  of  this   volume    and 
caused  its  publication,  and  to 

MR.  ALLEN  SWIFT 
for  valuable  assistance  in  evolving  the  cover 
design  and  illustrations. 


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AMONG  the  smouldering  embers  of 
the  old  may  ever  be  seen  the  glim- 
merings of  the  new.  Only  that  which  is 
basic  endures.  All  else  grows  old,  recedes 
and  vanishes.  Forts  as  well  as  fortresses, 
temples  and  towers,  alike,  crumble  and 
disappear.  Monuments  serve  as  memo- 
rials only  for  a  while,  then  both  they  and 
that    for    which    they    stood    are    lost. 


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Doctrines  follow  doctrines,  creeds  follow 
creeds,  then  perish.  Things  and  beings 
come  and  go.  He  who  clings  tenaciously 
to  the  old  and  tries  to  perpetuate  it 
passes  with  it  into  decay.  But  dis- 
organization and  reorganization,  cleavage, 
dissolution  and  recrystallization,  invo- 
lution and  evolution,  contraction  and 
expansion,  decay  and  growth,  destruction 
and  creation  succeed  each  other  ever. 
Every  action  is  confronted  by  reaction. 
Out  of  the  old,  within  the  old,  this  side 
and  beyond  is  ever  growing  the  new. 
Contiguous  with  death  is  an  immortality 
which  he  who  does  not  close  his  eyes  may 
plainly  see.  Species  merge  rather  than 
become  extinct.  Whether  or  not  the 
individual  dies,  the  race  lives  on.  And 
thus  the  struggling  tide  of  life  forever 
ebbs  and  flows. 


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CHAPTER  I 

A  ramble  among  the  sciences  and  creeds 
together  with  a  glimpse  about  us  reveals 
faint  glimmerings  of  a  new  epoch  which 
is  already  dawning. 

But  before  starting  upon  the  fascinat- 
ing mental  excursion  which  lies  just 
ahead  and  which  carries  to  the  border 
of  the  new  state,  it  will  be  best  to  prepare 
the  mind  somewhat  for  the  realm  which 
it  will  then  be  invited  to  contemplate. 

First.  Luminiferous  Ether,  that  medium 
which  pervades  space  and  matter  alike, 
was  once  regarded  as  being  so  rare  as  to 
approach  near  to  being  absence  of  all 
existence.  But  it  has  been  demonstrated 
that  in  at  least  one  respect  it  is  almost 
if  indeed  not  as  dense  as  steel.  But  it  is 
so   different   in   its   nature   from   solids, 


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liquids  and  gases,  that  it  can  and  does 
occupy  the  same  space  at  the  same  time 
with  any  of  these  three  forms  of  matter, 
just  as  a  transparent  substance,  light, 
heat  and  magnetism,  by  their  widely 
different  natures,  may  and  do  all  co-exist. 

By  repeating  more  concisely  and  ex- 
tending the  claim  just  made,  the  mind 
will  be  better  fitted  to  accompany  in  the 
plunge  that  will  then  be  made  so  deep 
into  the  labyrinth  of  nature's  intricacies 
that  not  all  will  consent  to  accompany, 
but  which  may  suggest  the  region  in  or 
near  which  to  look  for  the  key  which 
will  unlock  some  of  the  present  mysteries 
of  the  universe. 

Matter  (solid,  liquid  or  gas),  light,  heat, 
luminiferous  ether,  electricity  and  the 
forces  inherent  in  it,  attraction  (atomic, 
molecular,  etc.),  and  that  basic  principle 
or  force  which  creates  atoms  and  is  there- 
fore the  basis  of  all  material  existence, 
together  with  that  marvelous  principle  or 


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force  which  organizes  atoms  into  living 
cells  and  therefore  is  the  basis  of  all  life, 
are  all  so  different  in  their  natures  that 
they  may  and  do  all  occupy  the  same 
space  at  the  same  time.  Indeed  it 
would  not  be  far  from  the  truth  to  say 
that  they  all  co-exist  everywhere  and 
forever. 

But  few  of  the  laws  which  govern 
them,  or  rather  the  laws  which  they 
enforce,  are  yet  understood  by  the  human 
race. 

Under  certain  conditions,  fragments  of 
some  of  these  may  move  about  through 
any  or  all  of  the  others  without  displacing 
or  even  disturbing  them,  while  under 
other  conditions  one  class  or  group  may  act 
upon  one  or  more  of  the  others  and  dis- 
place, transform,  or  deflect  them  from  their 
courses.  The  transmission  of  messages 
through  granite  walls  and  raging  storms 
by  means  of  wireless  telegraphy,  is  evi- 
dence that  neither  solid  rock  nor  atmos- 


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pheric  disturbance  obstructs  so  as  to 
prevent  the  transmission  of  waves  or 
flashes  through  luminiferous  ether.  The 
fogging  of  sensitized  plates  in  rooms 
adjoining  those  in  which  x-rays  are  being 
developed  is  proof  that  that  invisible 
force  or  ray  also  penetrates  ordinary  walls 
or  petitions  of  solid  opaque  matter.  With 
such  ease  are  the  metals  and  rocks  now 
penetrated  that  the  forts  of  the  immediate 
future  must  be  built  of  mica  and  that 
around  magazines  and  the  sparkers  on 
flying  machines  instead  of  around  the 
men. 

Upon  the  other  side,  many  kinds  of 
rays  of  light  traveling  through  luminif- 
erous ether  may,  under  certain  condi- 
tions, be  deflected  and  reflected  by  mat- 
ter. Difl'erent  forms  or  conditions  of 
heat  may  be  transported  from  one  place 
to  another  by  means  of  material  objects 
in  which  they  may  be  temporarily  making 
their  abode;    while  in  turn,  under  other 


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conditions  heat  possesses  a  peculiar  power 
which  enables  it  to  move  matter. 

Some  of  the  more  massive,  as  well  as 
the  most  acute  joys  of  sentient  beings  are 
the  result  of  absorbing,  utilizing,  convey- 
ing, transmitting  and  nurturing  special 
and  specific  fonns  of  the  life-giving 
principle  or  force,  while  in  turn,  it  is  that 
principle's  business  and  one  of  its  chief 
joys  to  build  sentient,  rational,  volitient 
beings.  We  eat,  digest,  assimilate,  ex- 
pand, sub-divide,  nourish  and  protect, 
and  thus  find  pleasure  in  evolving  specific 
forms  of  organic  life.  We  plant,  reap 
and  gamer  —  aye,  even  we  ourselves 
move  about  and  thus  transport  it,  while 
contiguous  with  progenity  is  immortality 
and  the  parents'  keenest  joys,  most  mas- 
sive pleasures  and  brightest  hopes. 

CHAPTER  II 
The  foregoing  leads  so  near  to  a  most 


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interesting  glen  of  thought,  that  it  is  well 
worth  the  time  that  it  will  require  to 
digress  far  enough  from  the  main  line  to 
view  it. 

Every  man  has  been  his  own  purchas- 
ing agent,  architect  and  builder  of  him- 
self, even  from  biyonde  cifrun,  if,  indeed, 
he  has  not  actually  been  his  own  creator; 
and  all  this  the  result  of  his  own  choice 
and  volition. 

Whether  or  not,  individually,  he  actually 
creates  some  of  the  atoms  with  which  he 
builds  himself,  he  is  an  inseparable  part 
of  that  force  which  does,  and  chooses, 
gathers,  prepares,  arranges  and  organizes 
them  into  living  cells,  and  these  into  tiny 
co-workers  and  tissues,  and  these  into 
colonies  and  machines  which  they  and 
he  construct  for  the  purpose  of  enabling 
them,  which  are  himself,  to  deal  directly 
with  the  material  world. 

As  he  builds,  he  interweaves  these 
ingredients  into  beautiful  garlands,  as  it 


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were,  and  binds  them  all  together  into 
that  most  wonderful  being,  the  sentient, 
rational,  intellectual  volitient  soul  —  the 
living  man  —  himself  as  he  is.  He  is 
constantly  changing  and  remodelling  him- 
self in  order  to  adapt  himself  to  the  ever- 
changing  conditions  which  environ,  sur- 
roimd  or  confront  him,  or  as  the  result  of 
sacrifices  made  in  order  to  attain  ends 
which  he  presumes  to  be  worth  the  price. 

He  adds  new  organs,  or  adapts  to  new 
functions  as  he  needs  to  assist  him  to 
accomplish  that  for  which  he  strives,  and 
is  ever  tearing  down  and  casting  away 
such  of  himself  as  he  does  not  use. 

As  he  adds  new  organs,  he  adds  new 
attributes,  thus  ever  striving  to  advance 
to  higher  planes.  He  has  long  been 
conscious  that  he  has  attained  five  senses; 
touch,  taste,  smell,  hearing  and  sight. 
But  cither  in  his  effort  to  provide  for 
constant  inspection  and  guardianship  of 
all  his  parts,  he  has  developed,  or  in  his 


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closer  analysis  of  self  has  discovered  that 
he  now  possesses  other  senses.  As  he 
lies  upon  his  couch  in  what  seems  to  be 
total  darkness  and  silence,  with  eyes 
closed,  apparently  without  a  motion  or 
sensation  of  touch,  taste,  hearing,  smell 
or  sight,  he  feels  plainly  the  existence  of 
his  different  parts.  As  he  thinks  of 
hand,  finger,  eye  or  foot,  he  senses  them 
and  knows  that  they  exist.  This  is 
accomplished  by  a  sixth  sense  which  has 
been  acknowledged  and  named  muscular 
feeling. 

A  further  analysis  of  man's  sentiency 
reveals  another  most  interesting  sense. 
As  he  stands  or  moves  about  in  what 
seems  total  darkness,  he  senses  the  ap- 
proach of  other  bodies  and  can  even 
distinguish  between  organic  and  inorganic 
objects  before  he  detects  them  by  any  of 
the  five  senses  already  named  which  deal 
with  the  outer  worlds  A  well  organized 
close  observing  blind  man,  as  he  walks 


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along  knows  when  he  is  passing  objects 
and  can  even  distinguish  between  a  board 
fence,  a  stone  wall  and  a  post. 

He  can  also  tell  whether  he  is  approach- 
ing or  receding  from  a  wall  or  building, 
and  can  discern  vaguely  its  outline.  This 
he  accomplishes  by  means  of  a  seventh 
sense  which  seems  to  contain  some  of  the 
elements  of  the  others  but  is  more  than  a 
grouping  of  them.     It  is  more  massive. 

The  sensation  upon  the  ear  is  that  of 
feeling  rather  than  of  hearing.  There  is 
at  the  same  time  a  sensation  upon  the 
eye  as  if  rays  of  a  peculiar  nature  were 
emanating  from  the  object.  But  this 
is  felt  through  the  skin  as  well,  together 
with  a  sensation  of  mingled  attraction 
and  repellance  which  gives  a  perception 
akin  to  seeing  objects  through  the  skin 
and  feeling  them  without  touching  them. 
Thus  far  this  sense  seems  to  exist  only  in 
the  upper  part  of  the  body.  Hence  a 
blind  man  who  can  walk  past  buildings. 


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walls,  fences,  posts  and  trees  with  com- 
parative safety  may  step  into  a  ditch, 
fall  over  a  precipice  or  tumble  down  stairs. 

Whether  the  sensations  of  this  seventh 
sense  are  the  result  of  aura,  or  rays  not  yet 
understood  which  emanate  from  the 
objects  themselves,  or  from  attraction  of 
the  object  mingled  with  atmospheric  resist- 
ance, or  that  the  objects  obstruct  or 
reflect  in  a  measure  the  terrific  noise, 
vibrations  or  disturbance  of  the  universe, 
remains  for  future  investigators. 

Those  who  have  not  yet  evolved  suffi- 
ciently to  perceive  the  presence  of  objects 
by  the  means  described  in  the  foregoing, 
may  question  the  truthfulness  of  the 
statements  there  presented.  But  that 
some  human  beings  have  already  attained 
the  seventh  sense  is  unquestionable. 

Telepathists  claim  the  power  to  receive 
thoughts,  feelings  and  emotions  of  others 
even  at  a  distance,  through  other  than 
the    ordinary    channels    of  transmission 


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or  sensation.  If  their  claim  is  true,  they 
receive  those  thoughts,  feelings  and  emo- 
tions by  means  of  an  eighth  sense  which 
differs  from  all  the  others. 

Mesmerism  is  closely  allied  to  and  is 
partially  dependent  upon  telepathy,  but 
is  further  reaching  and  in  this  may  be 
regarded  as  implying  and  including  a 
ninth  sense. 

Spiritualists  and  clairvoyants  claim 
still  another  sense  by  means  of  which  they 
receive  thoughts  and  messages  from  those 
who  have  passed  on  biyonde  cifrun. 

Clairvoyance  is  so  closely  allied  to 
spiritualism  that  it  will  not  be  considered 
separately. 

Lastly,  mysticists  claim  a  sense  by 
which  they  receive  information,  inspira- 
tions and  supernatural  powers  directly 
from  a  creator  and  controller  of  every- 
thing. 

Whether  or  not  the  absent  ones  are 
conscious    of    having    transmitted    any 


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messages  will  not  here  be  either  affirmed 
or  denied.  But  the  impressions  received 
by  telepathists,  mesmerists,  spiritualists, 
clairvoyants  and  mysticists  are  just  as 
real,  and  the  messages,  feelings,  emotions 
and  inspirations  are  received  in  actuality 
just  as  much  as  are  the  ordinary  expe- 
riences of  every-day  life. 

Many  will  contend  that  telepathy, 
mesmerism,  spiritualism,  clairvoyance 
and  mysticism  have  to  do  entirely  with 
the  mind  and  therefore  should  not  be 
classed  with  the  senses.  But  while  no 
strong  contention  will  be  made,  they  are 
all  obscure,  without  definite  outlines  and 
seem  to  lie  partially  within  or  at  least 
touch  the  four  realms  —  the  senses,  the 
intellect,  the  emotions  and  the  will  — 
and  are  here  listed  with  the  senses  in 
order  to  complete  the  list  and  mention 
all  the  different  means  by  which  sentient 
beings  receive  impressions. 

But  let  them  be  classed  as  they  may. 


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these  five  mystic  attributes,  whether 
sensual  or  psychical,  real  or  fancied, 
being  occult  in  their  natures  are  especially 
fitted  to  serve  charlatans,  deceivers  and 
impostors  who  have  made  them  the 
greatest  sources  of  plunder  and  imposi- 
tion that  the  worid  has  ever  known.  No 
claim  for  them  seems  too  extravagant  to 
be  accepted  by  the  credulous  who  when 
duped,  anxiously  contribute  their  all  to 
pillagers  and  despoilers  and  believe  that 
by  so  doing  they  receive  in  return,  in- 
formation from  biyonde  cifrun  and  pur- 
chase mortgages  on  eternity. 

But  while  man  busies  himself  adding 
new  organs,  developing  and  adapting 
already  existing  organs  to  new  functions, 
thus  gaining  new  powers,  he  is  constantly 
eliminating  others  as  well.  His  tonsils 
and  appendix,  if,  indeed,  not  his  spleen, 
have  remained  idle  so  long  that  he  has 
entirely  forgotten  what  he  built  or  used 
them  for,  and,  in  order  to  relieve  himself 


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of  the  burden  of  carrying  them  around, 
is  tearing  them  down  and  throwing  them 
away  as  fast  as  he  can. 

Partly  on  account  of  laziness,  but  more 
on  account  of  ignorance  and  haste  to 
accomplish  other  things,  some  of  the  more 
mentally  restless  tribes  of  men  choose  soft 
foods,  thereby  relieving  themselves  of 
much  use  for  teeth.  Already  a  strong 
tendency  toward  discarding  the  teeth  has 
manifested  itself  among  these  tribes. 
Dentistry  serves  only  as  an  artificial  check 
to  decay  in  the  individual.  The  inherent 
tendency  of  these  tribes  under  prevailing 
conditions  is  toward  discarding  the  teeth, 
and  unless  they  return  again  to  foods 
which  require  more  powerful  grinding 
than  soups,  jellies  and  puddings,  their 
progeny  will  soon  degenerate  into  a 
toothless  race. 

In  order  to  grow  good  teeth  they  must 
be  fed  and  given  proper  exercise,  espe- 
cially during  childhood. 


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But  while  man  eliminates  organs  and 
appendages  by  non-usage,  he  also  impairs 
and  destroys  by  imprudent,  too  extrava- 
gant or  harsh  usage. 

Teeth  are  broken  by  efforts  to  crush 
substances  which  are  harder  than  they. 
Fingers,  arms,  legs  and  backs  are  broken, 
and  muscles  are  sprained  by  attempts  at 
resistance  beyond  their  capacity.  Organs 
are  overworked  and  destroyed  ere  they 
are  fully  developed.  Eyes  are  overtaxed 
or  impaired  by  too  arduous  use  in  insuffi- 
cient, too  intense  or  improper  quality 
of  light.  The  lures  of  ambitions,  appe- 
tites and  passions  lead  to  over-exertion, 
over-indulgence  and  excessive  sacrifices 
of  self.  The  heart  is  driven  beyond  its 
capacity  by  the  emotions,  alcohol  or 
other  stimulants  and  finally  succumbs. 
And  thus  the  average  man  and  woman 
become  wrecks  in  what  should  be  their 
childhood. 

Awake,  O  you  lazy  ones.     Bestir  your- 


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selves  before  you  wither  and  vanish. 
Halt  you  impetuous,  heedless  ones.  Stop 
your  wreckless  mad  rush  toward  your 
own  destruction.  Both  lethargy  and  in- 
temperance destroy.  It  is  better  to  build 
than  either  to  deteriorate  or  to  demolish. 
Temperate  and  prudent  feeding  and  exer- 
cise of  your  powers  are  the  means  by 
which  you  may  build  and  improve  self. 

But  martyrdom  is  not  always  without 
its  reward.  For  he  who  attains  that 
for  which  he  strives  reaches  his  goal,  even 
though  it  be  by  the  sacrifice  of  the 
machine  with  which  he  accomplishes  his 
purpose,  even  to  the  extent  that  that 
machine  be  himself. 

But  whether  or  not  the  reward  is  worth 
the  sacrifice  necessary  to  attain  it,  should 
be  considered  before  making  the  sacrifice. 
For  when  once  done,  no  atonement  can 
repair.  Nature  is  exacting.  She  de- 
mands her  price.  It  is  better  to  forbear 
than  to  mourn. 


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When  a  man  becomes  dissatisfied  with 
himself,  he  should  bear  in  mind  that  he 
is  the  product  of  his  own  labors.  He 
should  find  littlefault  with  other  thanhim- 
self.  He  was  bom  at  his  own  solicitation, 
when  and  as  he  would.  If  he  has  deterio- 
rated instead  of  developed  to  a  higher 
plane  than  that  of  his  ancestors,  the  fault 
is  mostly  his  own,  even  from  biyonde 
cifrun. 


CHAPTER  in 


As  a  further  preparation,  three  other 
elements  will  be  considered  before  em- 
barking for  the  direct  trip  to  the  capitol 
which  stands  at  the  terminal  of  this  tour. 

There  is  much  evidence  that  when  a 
whiriing  material  object,  be  it  a  solid, 


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liquid  or  gas,  attains  a  certain  speed, 
which  seems  to  depend  upon  other  quali- 
ties or  conditions  together  with  volume  and 
weight,  some  of  the  laws  which  govern  it,  or 
rather  some  of  the  forces,  developed  by- 
it  below  that  rate  of  speed  seem  to 
change,  some  of  them  even  becoming 
reversed  and  the  object  becomes  a  self- 
sustaining  entity  by  passing  a  point  in 
rate  of  speed  (the  zero  or  cifrun)  where 
the  development  of  centrifugal  force  (that 
force  which  tends  away  from  the  cen- 
ter) ceases  and  centripetal  force  (that 
force  which  tends  toward  the  centre)  is 
developed  both  within  and  beyond  cer- 
tain radii.  But  at  the  terminals  of  those 
radii  it  seems  to  surround  itself  with  a 
belt  or  cifrun  which  separates  it  in  a 
measure  from  everything  else  and  at 
which  points  it  repels,  although  it  attracts 
at  points  both  within  and  beyond. 

The  first  tendency  of  a  whirling  object 
toward  becoming  a  self-sustaining  entity 


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is  familiar  to  every  boy  who  has  rolled  a 
hoop  or  twirled  a  top. 

A  still  stronger  tendency  toward  that 
end  is  manifested  in  the  gyroscope  which 
seems  to  plainly  contradict  some  of  the 
commonly  accepted  theories  concerning 
gravitation  and  which  shows  a  strangely 
contradictory  action  upon  the  needle  at 
its  poles. 

The  following   illustration,    No.    1,   is 
designed  to  show  changes  of  direction  of 
forces   developed   by   different   rates   of* 
speed. 

A — Moderate  speed  develops  tangen- 
tial force  which  tends  to  throw  off  par- 
ticles at  a  tangent. 

B — More  rapid  speed  develops  centri- 
fugal force  which  tends  straight  from  the 
center  of  the  revolving  object. 

C — ^Transcendent  speed  develops  cen- 
tripetal force  which  tends  straight  toward 
the  center;  that  is,  develops  attraction  or 
gravitation. 


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The  illustration  B  represents  a  revol- 
ving object  which  has  attained  a  rate 
of  speed  which  touches  its  cifrun,  and 
conditions  within  itself  not  permitting 
it  to  proceed  further,  it  turns  or  falls  back, 
by  bursting  into  smaller  entities  which 
continue  to  whirl  in  the  same  direction, 
but  whose  cifruns  are  further  on. 

The  illustration  C  represents  a  revolv- 
ing object  which  has  succeeded  in  passing 
its  cifrun  of  speed. 

The  arrows  below  the  line  in  illustra- 
tion No.  2  show  the  zones  of  attraction 
and  repellency  as  developed  by  the 
revolving  object  represented  at  D.  The 
arrows  above  the  line  show  those  of  the 
object  represented  at  E. 

At  the  point  represented  at  F  in  the 
above  diagram  there  is  another  repelling 
force  in  addition  to  that  of  the  cifrun  at 
which  this  treatise  is  directed,  by  reason 
of  the  opposing  forces  of  contiguous 
contrary  motions  as  shown  by  the  long 


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Illustxation  No.  2 
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arrows  outside  the  cifruns.  But  at  that 
point  also  stands  a  zero — so  it  is  still 
within  the  range  of  the  subject  here  under 
consideration. 

The  contentions  are  that  between  the 
inner  walls  of  the  cifruns  is  attraction 
while  at  the  points  of  the  cifruns  them- 
selves is  a  tendency  to  repel. 

This  law  is  universal,  extending  to 
liquids  and  gases  as  well  as  solids.  The 
purling  of  water  and  of  smoke  is  but  a 
manifestation  of  a  tendency. 

The  rings  of  vapor  and  smoke  which 
are  sometimes  produced  by  sudden  puffs 
of  locomotives,  or  by  tobacco  smokers, 
result  from  this  general  law.  The  force 
which  forms  them  is  developed  by  a  circu- 
lar column  of  mingled  air  and  smoke 
whirling  or  revolving  rapidly  around  its 
core  as  the  axis,  and  having  passed 
biyonde  cifrun,  becomes  in  a  measure,  a 
frail,  transient  self-sustaining  entity,  but 
by  reason  of  the  direction  of  its  revolu- 


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tions  tends  to  constantly  enlarge  the 
circle  and  thus  weaken  itself  until  it 
finally  falls  back  again  from  biyonde 
cifnin  and  vanishes. 

Planets  are  perfect  specimens  of  re- 
volving solids  which  have  whirled  on 
biyonde  cifrun  as  regards  speed  and 
become  self-sustaining  entities  (relatively 
of  course,  hence  their  poses;  nothing  is 
absolutely  independent  of  everything 
else.) 

The  rings  of  Saturn  or  the  spaces  be- 
tween them  are  visible  cifnins. 

A  whiriing  body  insists  upon  a  pose  as 
regards  gravitation  or  attraction  of  other 
matter.  The  pose  varies  with  the  rate 
of  speed  at  which  the  body  is  revolving. 

In  this  treatise  this  force  will  be  named 
axispose. 

The  effects  of  this  force  are  seen  in  a 
whirling  top  and  can  be  plainly  felt  by 
taking  a  rapidly  revolving  gyroscope  in 
the  hand  and  turning  it  quickly  in  differ- 


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ent  directions. 

This  law  becomes  at  once  an  important 
factor  in  aviation.  Lives  will  be  sacri- 
ficed by  ignoring  these  forces  in  the 
rapidly  revolving  cylinders  of  the  engines 
in  flying  machines. 

Were  it  possible  to  change  the  direction 
of  the  axis  of  a  planet,  it  would  upon 
being  released  proceed  immediately  to 
swing  back  to  its  normal  pose  unless  its 
speed  were  changed. 


CHAPTER  IV 

In  order  not  to  disappoint  those  whose 
interest  thus  far  has  been  in  the  secondary 
subjects  rather  than  that  to  which  these 
were  designed  to  lead,  it  is  only  fair  that 
the  elements  thus  introduced  should  be 
more  fully  considered  before  entering 
wholly  upon  the  real  subject  which  is 
basic  in  nature,  and  for  that  reason  is  of 


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more  worth,  although  it  may  not  be  so 
fascinating  to  the  average  mind  as  the 
decoys  which  were  presented  for  the 
purpose  of  catching  and  holding  the 
attention  until  several  phases  of  the  pri- 
mary principles  aimed  at  were  presented 
and  partially  considered.  This  now  hav- 
ing been  accomplished,  another  secondary 
subject  will  be  taken  up  and  considered. 

A  short  trip  among  the  stars,  with 
Light  as  the  vehicle,  will  further  prepare 
the  mind  for  the  final  excursion.  But 
as  pupils  of  the  old  school  peer  deep 
enough  into  the  subject  now  being  treated, 
they  may  get  a  glimpse  of  a  new  doctrine, 
in  both  science  and  ethics,  toward  which 
the  world  is  tending. 

The  consideration  of  the  so-called  fixed 
stars  is  not  beyond  the  province  but  is 
beyond  the  design  of  this  treatise.  It 
covers  all  to  say  that  they  are  governed 
by  or  rather  are  the  result  of  the  same 
law  herein  aimed  at. 


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Astronomers  have  failed  to  account  for 
either  the  aspect  or  behavior  of  comets, 
partly  because  they  have  made  the  grave 
error  of  regarding  these  charming  visitors 
as  being  solid  opaque  bodies  similar  to 
planets.  Moreover,  only  crude  instru- 
ments have  yet  been  built  with  which  to 
observe  comets,  which  as  material  objects 
may,  after  all,  be  as  deceptive  as  the 
aurora  borealis,  and  their  positions  as 
uncertain  as  the  images  of  mirage.  Thus 
far,  much  that  has  passed  as  astronomy 
has  been  simply  the  chasing  of  phantoms, 
brilliant  spectres  and  optical  ghosts. 

In  studying  objects  by  means  of  optics, 
it  is  necessary  in  order  to  arrive  near 
enough  truth  to  entitle  to  respect,  not 
only  to  make  due  allowance  for  different 
conditions,  but  to  differentiate  between 
different  kinds  of  rays  of  light  together 
with  the  laws  that  govern  each. 

It  is  at  least  partially  true  that  with 
some   kinds    of   rays    which    submit    to 


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reflection  or  refraction  at  all,  that  the 
angles  of  incidence  and  reflection  are  the 
same. 

But  the  laws  governing  refraction  are 
different,  so  that  in  equal  incidence  of 
diff'erent  kinds  of  rays  there  is  often  quite 
an  inequality  of  refraction.  If  this  were 
not  so,  there  could  be  no  such  effect  as 
prismatic  colors  nor  any  such  spectre 
as  the  rainbow.  Furthermore,  it  is  known 
that  there  are  at  least  two  species  of  rays 
which  travel  on  in  a  straight  line  under 
all  circumstances,  seemingly  heedless  of 
what  they  encounter  on  their  way,  while 
others  may  be  deflected  and  reflected  so 
as  to  be  tied  in  knots  or  interwoven  into 
fantastic  forms  with  themselves  or  with 
each  other. 

It  will  be  well  to  bear  in  mind  at  this 
point  that  on  account  of  refractiveness, 
direct  rays  of  light  traveling  in  straight 
lines  are  exceptions  to  the  general  rule, 
and  are  indeed  rare  because  of  the  vary- 


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Illustration  No.  3 


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ing  conditions  which  they  encounter  at 
every  point  while  in  transit. 

Mention  will  be  made  here  of  three 
laws  which  cause  details  of  outlines  to 
disappear  from  our  vision,  according  to 
distance  and  quality  and  quantity  of 
illumination,  so  that  neither  the  shapes  of 
opaque  objects  can  be  determined  by 
the  shapes  of  their  shadows,  nor  the  shape 
of  an  aperture  through  which  a  group  of 
rays  pass  be  determined  at  any  very  great 
distance. 

Country  boys  grow  familiar  with  these 
facts  as  they  watch  the  shadows  of  passing 
birds,  and  as  they  view  with  astonishment 
and  wonder,  the  bright  round  spots  of 
sunlight  on  the  bam  floor,  and  note  that 
the  rays  of  sunshine  which  produce  them, 
are  admitted  through  long  narrow  cracks 
or  apertures,  between  shingles  or  weather- 
boarding. 

A  beam  of  sunlight  admitted  through 
a  crack  a  half  inch  wide  and  three  inches 


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long,  as  represented  at  (a),  in  illustration 
No.  4  will  produce  a  round  spot  on  the 
floor  at  (b),  at  about  fifty  or  sixty  feet, 
perhaps  less. 

That  this  is  caused  by  the  shape  of  the 
Sun  is  a  false  philosophy. 

But  reflected  and  refracted  rays  of 
light,  while  ultimately  governed  by  the 
same  law,  do  not  pass  biyonde  cifrun, 
within  the  same  distance.  Therefore,  a 
man  may  stand  upon  the  illuminated 
spot,  represented  in  illustration  4,  and  look 
back  at  the  crevice,  through  which  the 
beam  of  light  was  admitted,  and  discern  its 
shape  in  comparative  detail.  Paradoxi- 
cal as  it  may  seem,  this  appears  to  be 
evidence  that  in  the  main,  reflected  rays 
of  light  travel  in  straight  lines  to  great 
distances,  and  that  direct  rays  do  not, 
or  else  we  see  by  means  of  some  other 
agency  than,  or  in  connection  with,  light. 

Direct  rays  pass  biyonde  cifrun  within 
short   distances,    but   the   cifrun   of  re- 


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Cotliocle 
SHodo 


Suvt 
SVtadou) 


2 

Illustration  No.  5 


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fleeted  light  is  remote.  In  fact  the 
planets  of  this  solar  system  are  all  this 
side.  Hence  their  phases  are  plainly 
seen  and  are  perhaps  the  best  proof  that 
they  are  round. 

But  even  the  Moon  has  passed  biyonde 
cifrun,  as  regards  speed  of  revolution,  and 
has  become  a  self-sustaining  entity — and 
is  also  biyonde  cifrun  of  direct  rays  of 
light.  Hence  that  it  bears  the  appearance 
of  being  round  when  passing  between  the 
Sim  and  the  Earth,  or  that  the  Earth  casts 
a  round  shadow  upon  the  Moon  during 
eclipses,  are  not  proofs  that  either  the 
Moon  or  Earth  are  round.  That  the  disc 
of  the  Sun  as  seen  from  the  Earth  looks 
round,  is  not  proof  that  the  Sun  is  round. 

The  Kaleidoscope  is  positive  proof  of 
the  unreliability  of  images  received  or 
produced  by  reflected  light. 

Much  has  been  exaggerated  in  these 
diagrams  in  order  to  present  more  clearly 
the  claims  for  which  this  series  of  para- 


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graphs  is  contending.  But  the  principles 
represented  by  them  are  true  in  detail. 
Obedient  to  these  laws,  all  objects  at 
distances  remote  enough,  when  viewed 
by  direct  rays,  would  bear  the  appearance 
of  being  round,  no  matter  what  their 
shapes  might  be. 

There  is  a  species  of  ray  which,  like 
everjrthing  else  is  and  always  has  been, 
will  be  classed  with  mysticism  until 
understood.  By  means  of  it,  impressions 
are  received  directly  upon  the  intellect 
and  when  sanely  perceived,  surpass  in 
both  compass  and  accuracy. 

The  reception  of  these  rays  are  not 
restricted,  as  many  who  close  their  intel- 
lects against  them  suppose,  to  a  few  in- 
dividuals who  alone  are  divine;  but  touch, 
reveal  to  and  inspire  all  who  hearken; 
each  according  to  his  fitness,  willingness 
and  effort  to  receive  them. 

Aside  from  ambiguity  of  impressions 
produced  by  sunlight  and  shadow,  that 


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force  or  principle  known  as  light  lacks 
power  of  penetration,  thus  making  optics 
often  a  flimsy,  superficial  and  uncertain 
means  of  investigation,  except  in  cases 
wherein  all  the  influences  which  have 
affected  the  rays  in  transit  are  fully  known 
and  understood.  These  cases  are  rare. 
But  inspection,  by  means  of  what  is  called 
rays  of  light,  reveals  that  planets  are 
opaque  bodies  and  therefore  cast  shadows, 
while  comets  are  huge  transparent  lenses 
which  cast  just  what  they  must  cast — 
illumination  instead  of  shadow.  The 
tails  of  comets  are  simply  illumination 
and  are  always  just  where  they  must  be,  on 
the  side  of  the  comet,  away  from  the  Sun. 


Illustration    No.    6    showing    simplest 
form  of  single  comet. 


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It  may  be  contended  by  some,  that  even 
were  light  thus  condensed  by  a  huge  lens, 
no  illumination  would  be  visible  as  the 
light  would  be  simply  thrown  into  space, 
or  at  most  into  luminiferous  ether,  which 
transmits  but  does  not  reflect  light.  But 
they  are  more  than  doubly  wrong.  For 
other  forms  of  matter  exist  everywhere, 
and  moreover,  luminiferous  ether  under 
certain  conditions  does  reflect  light.  Fur- 
thermore, the  meteors,  which  the  Earth 
encounters,  is  proof  that  particles  of  solid 
matter  are  distributed  throughout  that 
which  many  regard  as  space.  It  is 
really  the  composite  of  those  which  are 
illuminated  by  the  condensed  stream  of 
light,  that  we  see  as  tails  of  comets,  just 
as  it  is  the  composite  of  particles  of  dust 
that  we  see  when  a  ray  of  light  is  admitted 
into  a  room. 

Any  inequality  of  distribution  of  these 
particles  is  quite  enough  to  produce  vary- 
ing brilliancy  even  to  total  disappearance. 


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Upon  these  hypotheses  anyone  who  has 
an  ordinary  knowledge  of  physics  can 
account  for  the  behavior  of  comets  which 
has  hitherto  been  regarded  as  marvelous, 
even  to  the  swishing  of  their  tails,  which 
from  their  very  nature,  must  always  be 
upon  their  side  which  is  away  from  the 
sun  which  they  are  passing. 

Every  search -light  is  an  artificial  comet 
as  regards  disc  and  tail. 

The  Earth  is  constantly  picking  up 
meteors,  and  obedient  to  the  law  of  dis- 
tribution, is  as  constantly  giving  off  small 
particles  of  matter  which  pass  out  into 
space  biyonde  cifrun  to  whirl  on  singly  or 
to  be  collected  or  united  with  other 
particles  into  new  meteors  and  be  picked 
up  by  the  Earth  again,  or  join  other 
planets,  or  by  the  constant  accumulation 
with  other  particles  grow  into  entities 
themselves  and  become  new  planets. 

(Thus  it  may  be  seen  how  even  the 
particles  which  compose  our  bodies,  may 


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have  existed  on  other  planets  in  the  past 
and  may  again  pass  on  biyonde  cifrun  to 
join  other  planets  in  the  future. ) 

Comets  differ  widely  from  suns,  planets 
and  satellites  and  have  a  wholly  different 
mission  from  any  of  these.  Again  it  is 
not  beyond  the  province  but  is  beyond 
the  intent  of  this  treatise  to  state  specifi- 
cally of  what  kind  of  substance  comets 
are  composed,  further  than  to  contend 
that  they  are  both  luminous  and  trans- 
parent. But  viewed  as  material  sub- 
stance, they  seem  to  be  almost  as  empty 
nothingness,  bubbles,  similar  to  vacuums 
in  the  invisible  matter  which  exists  bi- 
yonde cifrun ;  vacuums  which  spring  from 
nowhere,  and  upon  completion  of  their 
errands  return  to  the  vague  realm  from 
which  they  sprang,  passing  not  only  out 
of  sight,  but  actually  out  of  existence. 
Hence  astronomers  never  have  determined 
nor  never  will  determine  their  orbits  by 
means  of  the  telescope  any  more  than  they 


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can  determine  the  orbits  of  the  bubbles 
which  make  up  the  surf  of  the  sea  by- 
watching  them  through  field-glasses. 

The  nature  of  the  attraction  of  comets 
tends  to  confirm  this  theory. 

But  be  that  as  it  may,  the  whirling  of 
planets  acts  as  the  gyroscope  to  hold  them 
in  proper  pose  while  comets  are  special 
messengers  which  act  more  like  air- 
pumps  than  magnets  to  draw,  attract  or 
hold  them  in  their  relative  positions  with 
each  other. 

The  tails  of  comets  are  comparatively 
straight.  But  on  account  of  astigmatisms 
caused  by  the  ever  changing  surface  of 
that  immense  lens,  which  intervenes  be- 
tween  them   and   us ^the   terrestrial 

atmosphere ^they  often  bear  the  ap- 
pearance of  being  curved  when  viewed 
from  the  surface  of  the  Earth. 

The  apparent  space  between  the  disc 
or  comet  proper  and  the  tail  as  repre- 
sented at  the  arrow  in  illustration  6  is 


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but  a  portion  of  the  cifrun  or  dark  belt, 
which  is  one  of  the  main  subjects  at  which 
this  essay  is  being  directed. 


Illustration  No.  6 

Halley's  Comet  is  in  reality  a  nebula  or 
group  of  comets,  which  to  consider  fully 
would  precipitate  so  deep  into  the  in- 
tricacies of  nature  as  to  consume  more 
time  than  has  been  allotted  for  the  treat- 
ment of  this  secondary  subject.  Suffice 
it  to  say  that  the  reflections  of  a  myriad 
of  lenses,  which  Halley's  comet  really  is, 
are  sufficient  to  produce  a  faint  illumina- 
tion all  about  the  group. 

No  contention  will  be  made  as  to  whether 
Halley's  comet  is  really  the  same  group  or 


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Spring  into  existence  as  the  result  of  a 
recurring  necessity  for  a  group  of  vacu- 
ums or  attractors  to  pass  through  this 
solar  system  every  seventy -five  years,  in 
order  to  maintain  that  fine  balancing  of 
matter  and  forces  required  to  hold  Sun, 
planets  and  satellites  in  the  relative  posi- 
tions which  their  unity  as  a  whirling 
group  or  unit  requires. 


CHAPTER  V. 

As  the  excursion  flits  past  the  domain 
of  heat,  which  is  simply  a  different  mani- 
festation biyonde  cifrun  from  light, 
those  who  are  aboard  need  not  peer  very 
deep  into  that  region  until  a  cifrun  which 
surrounds  all  liquids  confronts,  and  be- 
yond which  the  liquids  cannot  pass 
except  by  changing  form.  They  can  pass 
beyond  the  cold  side,  only  by  consenting 


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to  become  solids,  and  beyond  the  hot  side 
only  by  being  transformed  into  gases. 

Man  has  long  known  that  the  liquids 
with  which  he  is  most  familiar  are  thus 
governed.  But  not  all  have  been  aware 
that  all  matter  is  governed  by  the  same 
law — ^that  all  kinds  of  matter  become 
solids,  liquids  or  gases,  according  to  the 
temperature  to  which  they  are  submitted. 

Gases  cannot  be  seen.  This  is  positive 
proof  that  matter  may  and  does  exist  in 
at  least  one  invisible  form. 

One  of  the  profound  problems  that  con- 
fronts man  is  how  to  enter  and  deal  with 
the  realm  of  invisible  matter  and  forces. 
But  he  has  discovered  that  it  is  tangible, 
and  is  striving  to  learn  more  about  it  and 
how  to  utilize  its  ingredients.  Among  his 
latest  achievements  are  the  new  uses 
to  which  he  has  put  luminiferous  ether 
and  the  axispose.  Man  seems  to  have 
been  contented  to  believe  or  rather 
has   taken    it    for     granted    that    mat- 


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ter  can  exist  in  only  three  forms — solid, 
liquid  or  gaseous.  But  it  is  only  con- 
sistent with  the  other  elements,  which 
together  with  matter,  comprise  the  uni- 
verse, to  suppose  that  other  cifruns  exist 
beyond,  that  is  encircles,  the  one  which 
has  been  discovered  to  surround  matter 
in  the  liquid  form,  although  man  in  his 
present  state,  or  stage  of  development  if 
you  will,  seems  yet  incompetent  to  follow 
matter  very  far  in  either  direction  beyond 
the  cifrun  which  he  has  known  of  so  long, 
or  to  determine  or  even  conceive  what 
forms  it  may  assume  biyonde  second 
cifrun. 

To  repeat  in  plainer  language,  what 
forms  matter  assumes  beyond  those  points 
where  it  becomes  too  cold  to  remain  a 
solid,  or  too  hot  to  exist  as  gas,  is  yet 
imknown  to  man.  That  cifrun  is  the 
border  line  beyond  which  in  one  direction 
lies  the  fourth  and  in  the  other  the  fifth 
dimension,  at  both  of  which  pupils  of  the 


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old  school  sneer,  and  the  existence  of 
which  most  men  deny.  But  those  who 
have  grasped  the  central  thought  of  this 
short  chapter  are  now  prepared  to  take 
the  plunge  promised  on  page  10  by  ex- 
tending the  principle  here  presented  in 
both  directions  through  cifrun  after  cifrun 
even  unto  dimensions  and  forms  infini- 
tum. But  as  the  mind  here  touches  the 
cifrun  ultra  which  encompasses  itself,  it 
refuses  to  venture  further  in  this  direction. 
As  it  is  with  that  realm  which  we  have 
been  taught  to  regard  as  being  the  inor- 
ganic material  world,  so  it  is  with  man, 
the  invisible  portion  surpasses  in  both 
volume  and  worth. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

The    consideration    of   the    secondary 
subjects,  which  were  intended  to  be  so 


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presented  as  to  build  up  to  the  chief  aims 
of  this  treatise,  having  now  served  their 
purpose,  the  cifrun  will  be  brought  to  the 
fore. 

The  cifrun  may  be  seen  as  a  dark  belt 
which  seems  to  surround  the  lamps  upon 
the  street.  In  fact,  it  surrounds  every 
luminary.  Mariners  have  discovered  its 
existence  in  the  circle  or  belt  of  com- 
parative silence  which  surrounds  fog-horns 
and  other  signals  at  sea. 

But  it  is  not  only  in  optics  and  ac- 
coustics  that  the  cifrun,  or  zero,  exists. 
In  Chapter  III  it  was  shown  to  exist  in  the 
effects  of  rotary  motion.  In  chapters 
IV  and  V  it  was  shown  to  exist  in  light 
and  heat,  which  are  but  different  mani- 
festations of  the  effect  of  the  same  force, 
vibration,  biyonde  cifrun  from  each  other. 

That  it  surrounds  and  pervades  all  that 
is — that  it  is  the  result  of  a  general  law 
which  extends  to  the  remotest  atom  of  the 
imiverse,  is  one  of  the  contentions  of  this 


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entire  treatise.  It  is  that  which  separates 
everything  from  everything  else  and  en- 
circles everything. 

It  stands  at  that  point  in  everything, 
where  nature  seems  to  halt  and  reverse 
her  laws  but  does  not.  Viewed  from  one 
standpoint,  it  is  the  zero  aroimd  which 
everjrthing  clusters.  Viewed  from  the 
other  side,  it  seems  to  encircle  all  that  is ;  it 
defines  and  divides  stage  from  stage  in 
growth.  It  stands  between  action  and 
reaction  everywhere  and  forever;  it  both 
permeates  and  encircles  our  lives.  Each 
night,  we  lie  down  to  sleep.  If  in  health, 
the  functions  of  our  organs  of  sense,  as 
well  as  those  of  the  voluntary  and  rational 
soul,  are  partially  suspended.  Every  time 
that  we  sleep  we  pass  through  a  cifrun 
or  dark  silent  belt  to  awaken  in  a  new 
cycle. 

Thus  each  day  is  as  a  life  unto  itself 
separated  from  the  others  by  a  zero  which 
we  call  sleep.     Each  day's  life  is  in  a 


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measure  biyonde   cifrun   from  those  of 
yesterday  and  tomorrow. 

Birth  is  that  point  in  our  existence 
when  we  emerge  from  an  intensely  dark, 
silent  belt  which  touches  our  lives  and 
like  an  invisible,  yet  opaque  curtain  or 
cloud,  exists  between  our  embryonic  life 
and  us  as  we  now  are  in  our  present  form, 
shutting  out  so  completely  even  all  mem- 
ory of  the  past,  that  we  seem  to  have  for- 
gotten all,  or  at  least  almost  all,  that  trans- 
pired upon  the  other  side.  We  lived  be- 
fore we  were  bom.  We  were  sentient 
beings  then  as  now.  Yet  all  seems  to 
have  vanished  save  that  vague  essence  of 
memory  known  as  instinct  or  innate 
ideas. 

Death  is  the  next  point  in  our  existence 
at  which  we  shall  again  touch  and  enter 
the  inner  wall  of  that  same  intensely 
dark,  silent  belt,  which  surrounds  us  in 
our  present  state,  to  emerge  again  biyonde 
cifrun. 


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But  listen !  Some  philosophers,  or  some 
inspired  ones,  if  you  prefer,  hold  that  as 
individuals,  we  are  each  simply  an  in- 
separable part  of  the  sum  total  of  all  life, 
and  that  when  as  individuals  we  die,  that 
it  is  simply  as  the  receding  of  a  bay  or  tiny 
inlet;  that  what  we  call  our  life  simply 
recoils  or  flows  back  as  it  were,  into  the 
mighty  sea  of  all  life,  of  which  it  is,  always 
was,  and  always  will  be  a  part. 

There  is  much  in  this  pretty  belief  to 
commend  and  nothing  to  condemn. 

Others  hold  that  as  individuals  we  are 
simply  organisms,  that  is,  a  collection  or 
composite  of  millions  of  minute  organisms 
which  have  united  for  a  purpose  in  which 
they  each  hold  an  interest,  and  that  what 
we  call  our  thoughts,  our  acts,  our  life  are 
but  composites  of  those  of  this  myriad 
collection  of  smaller  organisms,  and  that 
what  we  call  death  is  simply  a  dissolution 
or  rather  a  disorganization  or  separation 
of  these  smaller  living  beings  which  com- 


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pose  our  bodies;  that  these  smaller  beings 
may  live  on,  simply  separating,  to  enter 
into  new  combinations  and  thus  make  up 
new  living  forms. 

There  is  much  evidence  that  tends  to 
confirm  this  belief.  For  every  tissue  of 
the  body  is  now  known  to  be  a  compact 
of  small  living  beings,  each  with  an  in- 
dividuality of  its  own,  just  as  much  as  we. 
The  blood  is  teeming  with  living  ame- 
bae  who  are  ever  diligently  at  work  like 
great  armies  building  and  cleaning  up  for 
themselves  and  us  and  battling  with 
myriads  of  our  diminutive  enemies  who 
seek  to  enter  and  feast  upon,  or  destroy 
our  bodies.  In  our  desire  to  give  grati- 
tude to  the  source  of  our  existence  and 
preservation,  we  will  not  go  amiss  if  we 
give  to  the  little  white  ameba  a  share  of 
our  thanks.  For  when  they  become  im- 
poverished our  strength  fails  us.  When 
they  cease  to  toil  we  die.  Without  them 
we,  as  human  beings,  cannot  exist. 


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Blessings  both  on  the  amebae  and 
through  them  to  the  occult  source  of  life! 
These  are  our  unavoidable  and  indis- 
putable builders,  preservers,  protectors 
and  mediators.  He  who  sacrifices,  im- 
poverishes, abuses,  offends  or  neglects 
them  does  so  at  his  own  peril. 

There  are  those  who  enter  the  dark 
belt,  death,  believing  that  dying  is  simply 
lying  down  to  a  peaceful  eternal  sleep; 
that  it  is  as  the  bursting  of  a  bubble — 
that,  like  the  comet,  the  vacuum  which 
this  life  sometimes  almost  seems  to  be, 
will  close  up  at  that  point  where  we  shall 
touch  the  inner  wall  of  the  cifrun,  death, 
and  that  we,  as  individuals,  shall  there 
vanish  forever — that  we  exist  as  does  a 
flame. 

There  is  less  in  this  belief  to  disturb 
tranquility  of  mind,  than  in  some  of  the 
others,  while  the  high  estimate  of  the 
value  of  the  present  life  which  it  induces 
is  commendable. 


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As  the  only  immortality  which  it 
knows  is  that  which  lives  on  in  the 
progeny  and  reputation  which  the  indi- 
vidual leaves  to  exist  after  itself,  it  influ- 
ences for  high  ideals  of  parentage  and 
personality. 

There  are  many  who  believe  that  at 
death,  that  invisible,  but  opaque,  curtain 
which  conceals  what  follows  death 
shall  rise,  and  that  we  shall  be  permitted 
to  pass  on  and  continue  to  exist  in  our 
present  personality,  and  that  we  may  look 
back  into  this  vale  of  mingled  joys  and 
sorrows  as  if  looking  back  through  a 
night's  sleep  and  recalling  the  incidents 
of  the  previous  day;  that  we  shall  then  see 
the  virtues  and  defects  of  ourselves  as  we 
now  are  —  that  the  dark,  silent  belt, 
death,  is  but  the  portal  through  which 
we  pass  on,  each  retaining  his  personality, 
to  live  forever  biyonde  cifrun. 

The  prospect  of  eternal  life  in  our 
present  personality  furnishes  to  many  an 


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element  of  fascination  and  enchantment 
in  this  belief  not  to  be  found  in  the  others. 

But  whether  one  believes  this  or  that  or 
any  of  these,  is  of  little  moment.  Too  long 
already  has  been  endured  the  hatred, 
prejudices  and  strife  which  pernicious 
comparisons  of  these  conjectures  have 
engendered.  Matters  of  greater  im- 
portance, and  that  demand  our  immediate 
attention,  confront  us  at  every  step.  It  is 
what  a  man  is  that  determines  his  worth. 
No  human  eye  can  see  either  backward 
nor  forward  through  the  dark,  silent  belt 
which  surrounds  our  present  life.  He  who 
offers  to  sell  you  information  concerning 
the  region  from  which  you  came  or  the 
realm  to  which  you  are  going,  attempts  to 
obtain  your  possessions  by  false  pretense. 

The  present  life  is  real,  full  of  demands 
and  is  the  one  that  concerns  just  now. 
He  who  spends  it  in  doing  the  right,  need 
have  no  fears  concerning  what  lies  beyond. 
He  who  wastes  it  in  dreaming  of  what 


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awaits  him  after  it  is  all  over,  is  himself 
a  zero  here  and  might  as  well  move  on 
and  make  room  for  better  men. 

The  ideas  of  reward  and  punishment 
are  the  incentives  to  action,  and  the  in- 
ducers of  restraint  alike  in  all  creeds. 
To  place  them  beyond  the  grave  weakens 
rather  than  strengthens  them.  Every 
man's  life  is  bound  up  with  that  of  the 
human  race.  He  whose  life  is  full  of 
good  deeds  excels  and  should  be  rewarded 
while  he  is  alive.  Tombstones  are  poor 
recompenses,  and  epitaphs  poor  fare. 

Here  we  would  gladly  stop.  But  the 
urge  of  duty  impels  that  more  be  said. 
The  human  race  has  an  inherent  right 
to  protect  itself,  and  wherein  the  scourge, 
the  gallows,  guillotine  or  electric  chair, 
serve  to  protect  the  lives  of  the  innocent 
and  thus  contribute  to  the  general  wel- 
fare, they  are  to  be  commended. 

Turning  away  from  the  repulsive 
thought  of  this,  the  most  horrible  of  duties, 


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and  rushing  with  all  possible  speed  past 
the  wild  and  visionary  isms  and  sense- 
less schisms  that  have  contributed  so 
much  to  discomfort,  contention  and  strife, 
we  reach  the  goal. 

From  somewhere  down  deep  among  the 
elements  that  constitute  the  basis  of 
human  happiness,  is  slowly  but  surely 
evolving  the  formation  of  a  condition,  a 
condition  yet  without  a  written  creed,  the 
gleams  of  which  are  already  being  hailed 
with  joy,  a  condition  not  traceable  to  any 
man  or  set  of  men,  but  that  is  springing 
from  the  better  chambers  of  the  human 
heart  and  is  encouraged  upon  the  sel- 
fish side  by  the  discovery  that  the  fruits 
of  kindness  and  charity  for  the  opinions 
and  rights  of  others  excel  the  results  of 
imposition  and  unwarranted  cruelty. 

America,  with  its  motley  and  dis- 
similar population,  is  especially  fitted  to 
become,  as  it  is  becoming,  the  birth  place 
of  the  doctrine  of  the  future. 


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May  it  have  for  its  chief  aim  the  ele- 
vation of  the  human  race  to  a  higher  plane 
of  physical,  mental,  moral  and  spiritual, 
that  is  ideal,  excellence,  so  that  men  may 
dwell  together  in  peace,  regardless  of 
differences  in  beliefs  concerning  what  lies 
biyonde  cifrun. 

The  human  race  is  nearing  an  epoch  in 
which  the  truthfulness  of  the  basic  princi- 
ples herein  contended  for  will  be  revealed 
and    acknowledged. 


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